Alex and Mary are back with a new episode for 2022. They’re discussing the pros and cons of New Year’s resolutions, commercialism, succeeding and failing at keeping resolutions, and wondering if it really matters. They also give an update on their time away, including Alex’s surgery/recovery and they announce a new schedule for the podcast and reveal a new musical introduction, as they begin Season 3.

Listen on our website, www.downthereaware.com/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Episode Highlights

• Welcome back! [0:31]
• Happy New Year! [0:36]
• Thanksgiving update [1:15]
• Christmas update [1:33]
• Surgery update [2:08]
• New podcast schedule [6:57]
• Mary’s lichen planus diagnosis [6:24]
• Please subscribe [7:42]
• New Year’s Resolutions [8:45]
• Success percentage rates [9:27]
• Gym memberships [11:07]
• Money spent on resolutions [11:48]
• Do you need a “new you?” [14:20]
• Health-related resolutions [15:20]
• Dry January [15:40]
• The “why” of each resolutions [16:25]
• Generational statistics [17:06]
• Regional statistics [18:16]
• Chris Terrell [19:30]
• Be careful what you wish for! [20:45]
• Commercialism [20:38]
• Test the practicality of resolutions[24:11]
• Coffee Trends [25:10]
• New Year, New You? [26:25]
• Thanks for listening! [28:36]

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